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The Empire Sandy at Toronto. She was one of 1,464 Empire ships built for war service by the British Government. Built in England in 1943 as a deep sea tugboat, she was tasked with Royal Navy work and salvaging merchant ships damaged in the Battle of the Atlantic and other naval engagements during the Second World War. She served in the North Atlantic Ocean from Iceland to Sierra Leone, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal during World War II.

After the war she was renamed Ashford, and worked clearing wreckage from the English Channel. She was then sold to a Canadian firm, Great Lakes Paper Company, renamed Chris M (after Chris Michels, a senior employee of Great Lakes Paper) and came to the Canadian Great Lakes where she spent fifteen years towing timber rafts for Lake Superior logging companies. In the early 1970s she was to be sold for scrap, but the steel hull was still in very good condition and she was bought by Nautical Adventures Co. who rebuilt the Chris M as a three masted schooner in the style of the 1880s. She assumed her original name the Empire Sandy and is believed to be the last Empire ship built during WWII to be still sailing. She began serving the Great Lakes as a cruise ship in 1982
Date Taken on 24 May 2008, 22:42
Source The Empire Sandy
Author Reading Tom from Reading, UK
Camera location43° 38′ 12.61″ N, 79° 23′ 30.17″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Reading Tom at https://flickr.com/photos/16801915@N06/2935124241. It was reviewed on 27 April 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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